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Barron's Bounce: Ruby Tuesday Shares Soar
The restaurant chain is one of three stocks moving higher after a mention in Barron's. Jack Otter and Sam Mamudi discuss Ruby, STMicro and Eaton.
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Peer support crucial
The Board of Directors of On Our Own-Charlottesville gratefully acknowledges the efforts of cofounder Shela Silverman in establishing what was known as the Drop-In Center [May 6 letter: "Drop-in Center no "flophouse"].
The Drop-In Center has evolved under the administration of Will Gallik with the help of staff, including Debbie Smith, to become a model for grassroots mental health, peer-run agencies.
Now known as On Our Own of Charlottesville, the Drop-In Center is only one of five programs sited at our location, and it continues all the functions enumerated by Silverman with the addition of peer-run support groups.
The board has supported Will and Debbie in establishing guidelines for use of the Drop-In Center by consumers to ensure that it is an undeniably safe and supportive place for anyone seeking recovery from mental illness.
On Our Own of Charlottesville is at a particularly exciting juncture in its decision to move ahead in implementing recovery programs for consumers. These recovery programs, quite distinct from those of addiction recovery, are outgrowths of peer-reviewed research that indicates that consumers become connected, productive citizens as a result of participation in consumer-run, consumer-based, consumer-focused programs.
Gallik and Smith have assumed leadership roles in promoting this innovative approach. Governmental cutbacks in traditional mental health agencies make these programs even more critical.
The admirable compassion and limitless energy that both Gallik and Smith invest in On Our Own of Charlottesville are wonderful gifts to the consumers. The Board is privileged to work with both of them.
Beverly Ball, President of Board
Elizabeth Breeden, Secretary of Board
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Bisons split, gain ground
The Buffalo Bisons and Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees split a crucial doubleheader on Saturday from PNC Field. The Bisons took game one 4-0, before dropping the second game 2-1. Both games were very exciting and had the energy of playoff baseball.
The Bisons did gain ground in the Wild Card race with Columbus losing their game tonight 8-0 against Indianapolis. Buffalo finds themselves 1.5 games back of the Clippers with 10 games remaining on the schedule.
In the first game of the doubleheader Kei Igawa and Dillon Gee were in a pitchers duel. Igawa faced the minimum 12 batters through the first four innings. Gee threw a shutout through 5.2 innings and tied a season high with 11 strikeouts to bring his season total to 161.
The Bisons however, jumped on Igawa in the seventh inning. The Herd started off the frame getting three hits off the starter, including a two-run double off the bat of the hot Russ Adams.
Buffalo would add a two-run homer from Mike Cervenak, his seventh long ball of the year, to go up 4-0. They would hold on to win by that final in the first game of the double dipper. In the first game the Yankees left 12 men on base in just seven innings and went 0x10 with runners in scoring position.
In game number two the Bisons once again saw a low scoring affair.
The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a solo home run from Jorge Vazquez, his 15th of the year. The lead would hold up until the sixth inning when the Bisons struck back.
After Royce Ring got the first two outs of the frame, the Yankees brought in their star closer Jonathan Albaladejo. He already broke the International League record for saves earlier this year and has 42 total saves on the season. Albaladejo is also eight saves shy of establishing a new Minor League record for saves in a year.
However, this would not be his night and he would blow just his second save of the season. With the bases empty and two away in the inning, Valentino Pascucci hammered a fastball over the left field wall for his 16th homer of the year and to tie the game 1-1.
But the Yankees got that run right back in the top of the 7th. The speedy Greg Golson led off the frame with a double down the third base line. Two batters later it was Vazquez again providing the go-ahead run, this time with a bloop base hit into right field to easily score Golson and help the Yankees retake the lead 2-1.
The Bisons and Yankees will play the rubber match and the final game on top of Montage Mountain in 2010 tomorrow, with a 5:05 p.m. start time from PNC Field.
BISONS NOTES: With a hit in both games today Mike Cervenak has extended his hitting streak to 10 straight games…In his first games back with Buffalo since being sent down from the big leagues, Jesus Feliciano went 3×6 in the two games…With one win and one loss tonight the Bisons are now 5-2 at PNC Field this season


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In January 2002, soon after America overthrew the Taliban, then-Senator Joseph Biden traveled to a ramshackle school in Kabul. As his tour was ending, a girl stood up. "You cannot leave. They will not deny me learning to read. I will read and I will be a doctor like my mother. I will. America must stay."
The conversation haunted Biden. When he returned to Washington, he pushed for more money for Afghan schools, and more U.S. troops. But he got nowhere. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld loathed nation building, which he believed bred dependence. Afghanistan's new president, Hamid Karzai, begged Rumsfeld to let U.S. troops participate in the tiny international peacekeeping force established after the Taliban's fall, so Afghanistan's new government could expand its writ beyond Kabul. "You think I am president, but I am not," Karzai pleaded, noting that local warlords were refusing to hand over customs revenue. But Karzai failed, too. Opposition to nation building, after all, was a core tenet of post-cold war Republican foreign policy. "Most of the advisors around the president," State Department official Richard Haass would later note, "held out little hope that Afghanistan could ever be made into something much better." Biden was appalled. Bush officials, he told reporters, "have already given up the ghost in Afghanistan. They've basically turned it over to the warlords."
Biden and other anti-surge liberals speak as if America is losing in Afghanistan because Afghanistan is irredeemable, when the real reason America is losing is because—as Biden himself once screamed—America hasn't really tried.
History plays nasty jokes. In 2002, to be a foreign policy liberal was to believe in nation building: to believe that when the United States bombed another country, America had a responsibility to help rebuild it afterwards. Today, however, it is mostly conservatives—buoyed by the apparent success of the surge in Iraq--who demand that America commit to nation building in Afghanistan. And it is mostly liberals like Biden who hold "out little hope that Afghanistan could ever be made into something much better." In our ADD-political culture, barely anyone seems to notice that the two parties have switched sides.
Biden has every right to change his mind, and it's understandable that he's more pessimistic about Afghanistan today than he was in 2002. But I think he's forgotten what he once knew. He and other anti-surge liberals speak as if America is losing in Afghanistan because Afghanistan is irredeemable, when the real reason America is losing is because—as Biden himself once screamed—America hasn't really tried.
• Tina Brown: Let's Not Abandon Afghan Women• Jon Krakauer: McChrystal's Credibility ProblemWhen anti-surge liberals talk about Afghanistan today, they often lapse into clichés about how the prickly Afghans hate all foreign occupiers. But for many years after the Taliban was overthrown, Afghans adored their foreign occupiers. As recently as 2006, two-thirds of Afghans told pollsters that they approved of Western forces in their country and almost 90 percent approved of the Taliban's overthrow. Those numbers have dropped in recent years, such that now less than 40 percent of Afghans support NATO's presence. But significantly, the Afghans who like NATO best are the ones who feel that NATO's presence in their area is strongest, which suggests that what Afghans resent is not Western occupation, but ineffective Western occupation. To listen to the press, you'd think that Afghans prefer the Taliban to the United States. In fact, even as pro-American sentiment has faded, the U.S. remains far more popular than the Taliban, whose approval ratings don't exceed single digits.
In addition to pessimism about Afghanistan itself, the Biden crowd expresses deep pessimism about Hamid Karzai, whom they dismiss as a pawn of corrupt, illiberal warlords. But as Biden himself once noted, Karzai embraced the warlords because he had neither an Afghan army nor an international military force with the muscle to extend his reach into the countryside. Until 2007, in fact, the US made barely any effort to train the Afghan army. As late as 2008, America had one soldier in Afghanistan for every six it had in Iraq. And even today, the Afghan military remains only one-fourth as large as Iraq's, even though Afghanistan is a larger, more populous country.
Sure, Karzai's no saint. But neither is Nuri al-Maliki. In fact, Maliki's approval rating before the Iraq surge was less than 30 percent, far below Karzai's today. Maliki didn't become a vigorous leader because he had a personality transplant; he became a vigorous leader because he had larger, more effective military forces at his disposal. If Karzai had that, he could deal with the warlords from a position of strength.
None of this is to say that the situation in Afghanistan is promising. But it's not bad enough to do what Biden wants: which is to "give up the ghost." Biden has reportedly argued that the American people will not support a greater commitment to Afghanistan. But the truth is closer to the reverse: They will not support the current U.S. commitment to Afghanistan because—as study after study shows—the American people will only tolerate casualties if they feel there is a reasonable chance of victory. Sticking with the current force levels when America's commander on the ground has basically conceded that they cannot reverse the Taliban's momentum will set in motion a political dynamic that leads to American withdrawal and American defeat.
And what will that mean for Biden's young friend? Karzai is no moral paragon. His henchmen have stuffed ballot boxes, and he has cut deals at Afghan women's expense, largely to appease the warlords who have him by the throat. But still: two million Afghan girls are in school. When the Taliban ruled, it was illegal for girls to learn and virtually illegal for women to work. Men were instructed to paint the windows of their homes so that passersby could not see the women inside.
The Taliban haven't changed. Last year, men on motorcycles used water pistols to squirt acid in the faces of girls going to school. This year, the Taliban have taken to spraying poison in the courtyards of girls schools. What Biden is essentially proposing is to concede more and more of Afghanistan to such people while relying more heavily on U.S. air power to kill Al Qaeda terrorists. Since air strikes are far more likely to kill innocent civilians than are U.S GIs, Biden's vision is—for Afghan women in particular—a vision of hell. On the ground, you live in beast-like submission, and from the air, chunks of your village are periodically set aflame.
Somewhere, Donald Rumsfeld is chuckling.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.


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Hi. I'm new to java/android programming, but you sure will know it by just reading the post, as I think it has to be a very simple issue for an experienced programmer.
What I am trying to get:
An application with 2 ToggleButtons. On click they have to connect to a socket over the LAN and send a few characters (to an Arduino board which is listening).
What I've got after some days:
Android SDK, Eclipse and AVD installed and running.
An application with 2 ToggleButtons which responds to mouse clicks and shows a Toast.
There are a main activity and a class to handle the onClick event.
I tried in many ways but still can't get it to create a socket and send 2 characters.
I can connect to the Arduino from my PC with a telnet client, and even from my smartphone using an example telnet app i found over the internet, and Arduino accepts the commands, so I think (I'm quite sure) the problem is not in the Arduino program.
In order to debug my app I cut off all non essential code lines, just trying to open a socket and send a fixed string "A1". Here is what remains, but when it runs in AVD, on click shows a Toast saying "Generic ERROR", so it's not "UnknownHost" neither "IO" Exception.
Cutting off other code lines I found that the error raises on the line which creates the socket
socket = new Socket("192.168.1.123",80);
The IP address and the port numbrer are correct, I can connect there using telnet.
What's wrong with it?
import android.os.Bundle; import android.app.Activity; import android.widget.ToggleButton; public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); ToggleButton toggleButton1 = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.toggleButton1); toggleButton1.setOnClickListener(new MioClickListener()); ToggleButton toggleButton2 = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.toggleButton2); toggleButton2.setOnClickListener(new MioClickListener()); } //onCreate } //MainActivity
import java.io.BufferedWriter; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.net.Socket; import java.net.UnknownHostException; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; //import android.widget.ToggleButton; import android.widget.Toast; public class MioClickListener implements OnClickListener { @Override public void onClick(View view) { Socket socket; PrintWriter out; try { socket = new Socket("192.168.1.123",80); out = new PrintWriter( new BufferedWriter( new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream())),true); out.println("A1"); out.close(); socket.close(); } catch (UnknownHostException e) { Toast.makeText(view.getContext(), "UnknownHostException", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { Toast.makeText(view.getContext(), "IOException", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); e.printStackTrace(); } catch (Exception e) { Toast.makeText(view.getContext(), "Generic ERROR", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); e.printStackTrace(); } } }


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Students are immersed in popular culture. As educators, we have an opportunity to engage them in literacy activities that make use of this fun and engaging resource. In this lesson, students develop media literacy skills as they explore and analyze an episode of a popular television series. Possible shows include Zoe 101, The Secret Life of the American Teenager,or any of the High School Musical movies. Students reflect on characters, motivations, problems, and solutions as they view and interpret media. They then propose a new television series that more realistically portrays teenagers.
Literary Elements Map: This tools helps students organize the different details they find about the teenagers they research.
Carroll, M. (2004). Cartwheels on the keyboard: Computer-based literacy instruction in an elementary classroom. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
- Using the Internet as a learning resource can be highly motivating for developing literacy learners.
- There is no one best way to incorporate computers into the literacy classroom. Instead, teachers should use computers to enhance their instructional goals.
- Computer use is about discovery of the ways language works and what students can do with language as they pursue both intellectual and social goals.


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ABC World News Traces Made in America Jeans Back to the Farmer Who Grew the Cotton.
David Muir and the ABC World News made in America team are at it again with their made in America Christmas segments as thousands of Americans have already said they are in & ready to buy American made gifts. It`s the Christmas season & just one thing could help create thousands of new jobs right here at home as ABC World News reports that $64 spent on a USA Made item by each American can create over 200,000 new jobs and wish American workers a merry Christmas.
Clothing is just one theme with Christmas gifts each and every year, but did you know that 98% of the world`s clothing is NOT made in America? ABC World News reports that just 2% of the world`s clothing is made in America.
The All American Clothing Co. is part of that 2%. The USA made blue jean manufacturer is one of the few remaining USA made clothing companies left in America today. All American Clothing Co. was recently featured on the "Made in America" segment with ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (Dec. 6) as David Muir traced a pair of jeans back to the American farmer who grew the cotton with All American Clothing`s Traceability Technology.
About All American Clothing Co:
Founded in 2002 by Lawson & BJ Nickol due to a previous employer`s decision to outsource jeans and jobs to Mexico, the father and son team started the All American Clothing Co – A USA made jean company of their own that vows to never trade USA jobs for foreign profits. The father son duo and their All American Clothing Co. has been featured on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CNN Living, Huffington Post, Fox Business, CNBC, Sirius XM, Forbes, Inc., and many more.
About Traceability Technology:
Traceability is all about the truth of where jeans come from. It offers some recognition to the hard working Americans who are involved in making jeans. All American Clothing Co. is the first jean company in the world that gives it`s consumers the opportunity to trace a pair of jeans back to the American farmers who grew the cotton used in their jean. The system supports over 12,000 American farmers & workers across the country.


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Ida Kosnar to celebrate 95th birthday
Ida Kosnar will be celebrating her 95th birthday on September 13, 2011. A card shower is planned for her.
Ida was born September 13, 1916 on a farm south of Traer to Vinc and Julia (Salasek) Axler. She is the mother of three daughters; Barbara (Kvidera) Merchant of Vinton, Marilyn (Kvidera) Nagel of Campbell, Calif., and Kathleen (Kvidera) Suhi of Waterloo. Ida has 11 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and 4 great great-grandchildren.
Greetings may be sent to her at 806 6th St. Traer, Ia 50675


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In a nutshell: Some 2 and 5 pound packages of Aunt Jemima pancake and waffle mix is being recalled in 17 states because of possible salmonella.
March 4, 2008 – The Quaker Oats Co. announced the products in the recall are a small quantity of Aunt Jemima Pancake & Waffle Mix: Original, Original Complete and Buttermilk Complete, which may have potential salmonella contamination. No other Aunt Jemima, frozen Aunt Jemima or Quaker products are affected.
The products, sold in 2 pound and 5 pound boxes with Best Before dates of FEB 08 09 H through FEB 16 09 H stamped on the top, contain the following UPC codes:
30000 43272: Aunt Jemima Buttermilk Complete, 5 lb.
30000 05040: Aunt Jemima Original, 2 lb.
30000 05070: Aunt Jemima Original Complete, 2 lb.
30000 05300: Aunt Jemima Buttermilk Complete, 2 lb.
Salmonella is a food borne illness that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
No illnesses have been reported in connection with this issue to date. There is very low risk of illness when preparation directions on box are followed and product is not consumed raw or undercooked. (Don't lick the bowl!) Salmonella bacteria is killed at a temperature of 160° F.
If consumers have this product with the indicated UPC codes and Best Before dates, they should return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company by calling the toll-free hotline at 1-800-407-2247.
Quaker Oats is in the process of recovering the product involved. Quaker knows specifically to which customer warehouses the product was shipped. Approximately 98% of the product is within Quaker's control. The 2% of product which is outside of Quaker's control was shipped to a limited number of retail and mass merchandiser stores (no direct distribution to West Coast). Of that small quantity, the vast majority likely has not been placed on store shelves. Product was shipped to 17 states including Texas, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Illinois, Florida, Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, New Mexico, Kansas and Utah.


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RICHMOND, Va. – In a few days, we'll close the book on 2012 and turn the page to a new year with new hopes, new goals and new dreams. But they might have to drag Troy Daniels into 2013 kicking and screaming.
Daniels capped his torrid December by stroking a school-record nine 3-pointers and scoring a career-high 27 points in Saturday's 96-67 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. After a pedestrian 4-of-10 start from beyond the arc, Daniels kicked into high gear, hitting five of his last six, including four straight in the final three minutes, to break Bo Jones' 13-year-old VCU single-game mark. Daniels originally tied the record with eight triples Dec. 7 at Old Dominion.
This month has been, by far, the best of Daniels' career. In his last five games, Daniels has averaged 19.9 points and shot .500 (30-of-60) from 3-point range. Daniels has scored at least 24 points in three of those contests.
It hasn't been so much the flipping of a switch that has turned Daniels into a "must-watch" shooter the last five games as it has been the result of a cumulative effort. It's been hours at Franklin Street Gym late at night with Assistant Coach Jeremy Ballard, loads of film study, and pep talks with Coach Shaka Smart. Sooner or later, the dam was going to break and allow the river that is Daniels' sweet shooting stroke to flow freely. It appears we've reached that point.
"I'm happy for Troy," Smart said Saturday. "He's a guy that's put a lot of extra work in, a lot of extra hours where it was just him and a manager in the gym and it's paying off for him."


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In the week leading up to VMworld, vendors seem to fall into three categories:
- Those looking to get their news out in the pre-event hype
- Those looking to get the gears moving on their news pre-VMworld, but don't yet want to spill the beans
- Those completely oblivious to the VMworld hype
As the week rolls on, the third group is becoming increasingly smaller.
As to the second group: Stay tuned to ServerWatch next week.
That leaves the first group. On Wednesday, some pretty heavy-hitters revealed their virtualization plans.
Sun was front and center. It proclaimed the open source xVM Server worthy of the 1.0 gold stamp. If you're confused, don't be. The hypervisor environment has indeed been out since October 2007 and passed the 5-million download mark earlier this year.
But for companies that "don't do betas" this is big news.
In terms of mechanics, xVM works with Windows, Solaris, Unix and Linux, and it runs on both SPARC and x86 platforms. Mac support is planned for the next version, according to Sun.
Sun also unveiled the latest edition of its xVM Ops Center. Now in version 2.0, the software suite manages both physical and virtual infrastructures. It, too, was designed with interoperability in mind, Vijay Sarathy, senior director of marketing for xVM, told ServerWatch.
With these additions, Sun delivers a complete suite that's designed to extend from the desktop to the data center, Sarathy said.
Sarathy noted that "coo-petition" is the order of the day, and indeed, here it starts with the back end, which is built around the Xen hypervisor. Interoperability is front and center, allowing for integration with VMware and the capability to read the VMDK file format. VMware can also be used as the VDI environment and as the back end (as well as hyper-V) along with xVM.
The environment offers functionality that enterprises have come to expect, including live migration and built-in management capabilities.
Dell's Virtual Moves
At the other side of the OEM spectrum, Dell (yes, Dell) has landed at the virtual scene.
"Dell disrupts markets," Vice President of Software and Solutions Rick Becker said at a press conference. First it was PCs, then servers, and now it's looking at storage.
But it also has its eye on virtualization, and on Wednesday it unveiled three new servers that Becker described as "optimized for virtualization." The PowerEdge M805 and M905 blades and R900 rackmount server were "designed from the grounds up for virtualization," Sally Stevens, director of server platform marketing, said, contrasting them to HP's recently announced BL495c, which Stevens described as an offering that merely, "revamps and repackages."
The Dell servers offer three highly available, fully redundant I/O fabrics, eight high-speed ports, enhanced RAM capacity and the option to add more low-cost DIMMs, and an internal SD card for embedded hypervisors.
Dell also has an eye on virtualized storage and revealed offerings that bring technology from the Big Three (VMware, Microsoft and Citrix) to its products. It also announced a partnership with PlateSpin.
Will Dell succeed in disrupting the virtualization status quo? Virtualization may be as pervasive as California wildfires (though to a large degree it's wider than than it is deep), and it's arguable that a status quo has yet to be established.
Given that Dell is not an innovator, it may be far too soon for it to be "disruptive."
Further, Dell's track record for bursting on the scene and incorporating new technologies is far from stellar. Just look at how many tries it took for it to get a blade line off the ground.
Amy Newman is the managing editor of ServerWatch. She has been covering virtualization since 2001 and is looking forward to attending VMworld next week.


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Jonathan Carlson, executive director of Self-Help Inc., the fuel assistance agency, said unprecedented numbers of people are seeking fuel assistance even before the application period opens.
It may be summer outside but the winter heating season will be here before we know it — and folks are worried how much they will pay to stay warm during the cold weather.
"People are petrified," said Jonathan Carlson, executive director of Self-Help Inc., the fuel-assistance agency for the Brockton area.
"It is July and everyone is talking about the high cost of fuel," he said.
Carlson said unprecedented numbers of people are seeking fuel assistance even before the application period opens.
With record-high oil prices and an anticipated maximum benefit level of $500 — less than half last year's total benefit — to those eligible for fuel assistance, he predicts a tough winter ahead.
On Monday, heating oil prices were at the lowest point since May, but Fred Niccoli of Niccoli Oil, a Brockton discount full-service oil company offering oil at $4.09 a gallon, said, "Nobody really knows where this is going or where this is going to end.
"There's been a 30-cent reduction in price in the last 10 days," Niccoli said. "We don't know if it's going up again or what, there's no way to tell if it's going up or down."
But there's no doubt it will cost more to heat your home in the coming winter months, said Phil Lindsay, oil program director for MassEnergy, a non-profit agency that advocates and acts for consumers.
On average, consumers paid $3.50 a gallon for heating oil last winter, according to Lindsay. The price of oil crossed the $4 mark in May and hasn't gone back, he said. In general, he said, oil companies are basing customer's budgets on $4.50 to $5 a gallon for this coming winter.
Though natural gas was less expensive than oil last year, Lindsay said consumers should expect a hike of "40 to 50 percent" in the fall.
"What happens to people in heating oil is what happens to natural gas in the coming year," Lindsay said.
He also predicted a "double-digit" hike in the cost of electricity in coming months, though he said increased electricity prices would not reach those of natural gas.
Gov. Deval Patrick and House and Senate leaders said last week they are creating a task force with five Cabinet secretaries and four members of the Legislature that will offer public recommendations on energy costs within 60 days.
The price of home heating oil in New England has jumped 87 percent since the winter of 2005-2006. It will cost more than $3,750 to heat the average Massachusetts household with oil next winter. That's up from $1,800 two winters ago.
As consumers look to cut winter heating costs, some are considering conversions to natural gas while others are looking at alternative sources, including wood or pellet stoves.
The concern extends beyond homeowners to businesses, according to Mary Waldron, executive director of Brockton's 21st Century Corp.
"We're getting requests from businesses looking to change from oil to gas," said Waldron, who is doing research for several city businesses.
Lindsay said conversion should only be considered if a heating system needs to be replaced. Otherwise, he said, the money is better spent on conservation efforts — insulation, window replacements, weather-stripping and other measures.
"That's the best investment no matter what fuel source you use," he said.
Elaine Allegrini can be reached at email@example.com.


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Founded by two longtime friends, Carl Cunow and Nathan Romano, Onia is quickly becoming one of the country's leading luxury swimwear brands. Stocked at East End fashion meccas including Scoop and Theory, we spoke with the fashion entrepreneurs behind the burgeoning label.
Can you tell us a little bit about your background in the fashion industry?
We both grew up in the garment business—Carl more on the production side and I was always more in marketing and sales. Instead of going to college I packed up and moved to China to work for a trading company in Shanghai. I wanted to learn the ins and outs of what it takes to make a product and it was a great opportunity for me to do just that. Carl worked at Steven Alan on the development and production end with men's shirts.
How did you guys meet and decide to work together?
We met in high school. While I was working at Steven Alan, I saw a void in the contemporary market for swimwear that was well made with a focus on high quality fabrics and trims. Similarly, Nathan noticed a void in the non-surf luxury market. There was a big influx of surf brands hitting the market and there was a big influx of European brands, but there was nothing in between.
Who do you see as your core customer?
We're both New Yorkers and design with the New Yorker in mind. Our guy is a traveler. He's always on the go and so he needs something that's as high quality as it is versatile. Our customer might be out shopping and then decide he wants to jump in the pool—our swim trunks work seamlessly for both.
Where did the name come from?
Onia means boat in Hebrew. My wife was the one who came up with it. We were on the beach in Tel Aviv and she saw a far out boat; I texted Nathan and the rest is history.
What do you think sets your brand apart from other high-end swimwear labels?
Functionality—our pieces are impeccably constructed. The quality of our fabrics and trims and the way we sew all of our pieces is far beyond your everyday swim trunks. If you took our pieces apart, you'd see that they are sewn like high-end trousers. There are so many components that go into making each and every one of our pieces. We work with dozens of factories around the world that specialize in various components so as to ensure we are using the best of the best.
Are you influenced by fashion trends?
We look at what's out there, but more so than fashion trends we're influenced by technology. We're constantly striving to find the latest fabric innovations. We see our pieces as lasting well beyond a single season.
Any swimwear pet peeves?
Logos all over.
What's the hardest part about heading up a very fast growing fashion business?
Finding the right people to work with. It's very important to only work with people that understand your brand and your vision.
Why do you think your pieces are so popular in the Hamptons?
We're a brand built around the on-the-go New Yorker and given that many of them summer in the Hamptons it makes sense that we're well represented out East at stores like Theory, Surf Lodge, Scoop and Steven Alan. We're actually planning on capitalizing on our popularity by opening a pop-up next summer. We're in the process of scouting locations.
What's in store for 2014?
2014 Onia is going global. We'll be expanding into new markets including Japan and Australia. We're also re-launching our shoes, towels, and carrying cases. In keeping with the running aesthetic of Onia's trunks our shoes are designed for cross purpose; they're water resistant—they're made using leftover fabric from our swimwear—but wearable on the fashion conscious streets of New York City. Similarly our towels can be used for both drying off and lounging since they're made from a quick drying poly-nylon on one side and a 100% lightweight terry on the other.
Is women's wear a possibility?
It's definitely of interest in the near future.
Any tips for guys when they're shopping for swimwear?
Recognize what the purpose of the suit is. Are you surfing? Longing? Jet-setting?


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And I appreciate you telling me that you can look up movie show times online. I tried my best to look impressed. I didn't have the heart to tell you that you may be the last person in a G8 country to find this out.
And you're clearly fascinated by the fact that I can send your prescriptions in by email. Obviously, being a net newbie, you haven't read posts by myself or The Angry Pharmacist bitching about how much we HATE e-Scripts.
But, as much as you apparently think this is going to happen (because in your mind what else could "e-prescription" mean), your pills ARE NOT going to come to you by email. I swear. The matter-to-energy-to-matter conversion technology isn't there yet. And arguing with me and Annie about this is not going to make it happen.
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I've been asked by quite a few people, so … here's how I made my Facebook Pages screencast:
- I used Jing Pro to record the screencast. There's a free version – I whipped out $14.95 (have to pay it every year) for the pro version. Why? The pro version comes with that cool "webcam in screen" effect I used at the beginning and end of the screencast. It also records in MPEG-4 format, so I could easily edit it. It only records up to 5 minutes at a time, which is no problem – just record separate clips, then dump each clip into a video editing program (more on that in a sec).
- I plugged in a Samson CO1U USB Condenser Mic to get good quality sound on the speaking parts. It came out a little quiet – will need to play with that some more!
- Once the parts and pieces were recorded in Jing, I dumped each screencast clip into Apple's iMovie, which is an easy-to-use video editor. I didn't do much there – added a fade in and out to the beginning/ending of the screencast, spliced the clips together, added a bit of text … and removed all my goof-ups, extraneous pauses and "uhms" where I could. My goal was to get the screencast under 10 minutes so I could dump it to YouTube (and I was successful!).
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Racking Your Brain!
Although on occasion I will carry a substantial amount of weight on the rear rack of my bike, more often than not all I carry is a single pannier or bag. Sometimes there are groceries and packages involved, and even those often fit into a single large pannier. Once in a while, I will strap an item or two to the top of the rack, but it is not an everyday occurrence. When I look around at other cyclists, at least in the Boston area, I see mostly the same: One or two panniers attached to the side of the rack, or a bag strapped to the top. If I see more than that being transported (on a regular bike, not an Extracycle or a "utility bike"), it's an anomaly.
What about you? Be honest - how much do you really carry on your bicycle's rear rack on a typical day, assuming that it is a standard city bike?
Looking at other cyclists in the Boston area, I've also noticed a gender difference in how much stuff cyclists carry - with women typically having fewer things strapped to the rear rack than men. But there could be many factors accounting for this, and I am not sure how typical this trend is overall.
Having discovered how to embed these polls and surveys, I admit it's fun to set them up and then look at all the results - but hopefully also useful. I will soon be receiving a sample of the "Superba" rack prototype, and from there it should be just a matter of time until we're done. These racks will fit a standard 700C wheel bike, and regardless of whether you are interested in a "Superba" bicycle, the racks may be available for sale on their own. They won't be sold by me, but I will keep you posted - and your input will certainly be valuable.


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It's Showcase Saturday! Today's feature is the the cute August Digital Stamps that you collected.
There was the Scarecrow,Wagon,Crow and Autumn Wishes Sentiment
I made this fun Gift Bag to hand out. It was so easy you could make alot in a short period of time.
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- To determine the zoning regulations applicable to a site, you must first find the site on the official zoning maps.
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"Stuff like this happens," Cody Journell said. And he's right. Who hasn't been in a restaurant pleasantly minding one's business only to have to rush outside all of a sudden because some dipshit suddenly released the trigger on a can of pepper spray? Like Journell said, it happens. He ought to know. The kicker on the Hokies' football team, Journell happens to be the dipshit who did just that at a Blacksburg, Va., Buffalo Wild Wings on Jan. 24 around 9 p.m.*
From the Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech's student newspaper:
The entire bar and most of the restaurant ran outside onto the patio. People were crying, coughing and throwing up from the effects of the gas.
The restaurant was cleared for approximately an hour and about $50 dollars of tabs were left unpaid. Those working at the time also lost money in unpaid tips.
"I think he meant to do it," the server admitted, based on observation, "But I don't think he knew it was going to have the effect that it had."
"He was extremely apologetic," the server emphasized.
Journell maintains it was an accident. He says he was demonstrating how to use a key-chain-sized can of pepper spray for a female friend, and that when he handed it back to her, it triggered. He later self-reported the incident to the police. The restaurant has not pressed charges, and because being a dipshit is not a crime, no arrest was made.
[Collegiate Times; h/t to Andrew N.]
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"Digestarom® DC represents a dramatically new approach to phytogenics," stated Michael Noonan, Global Product Manager Phytogenics at BIOMIN. "We've concentrated our efforts on how to improve feed conversion, because we know that it's a core concern for livestock and feed producers around the globe."
According to the BIOMIN 2017 Phytogenic Feed Additives Survey, enhanced feed efficiency or a better feed conversion ratio (FCR) ranked as the most important benefit of phytogenics to the 1140 industry respondents.
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BIOMIN will first showcase the new Digestarom® DC from 15 to 17 March 2017 at VIV Asia in Hall 102, Booth #1000 in the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre in Thailand.
In addition, BIOMIN will host a "Phytogenics in Focus" conference on Thursday, 16 March from 14:00 to 16:00 at BITEC, Room 220/221 (Level 2). More information on the program and registration can be found here.


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The Senseless Things were a very young and peppy pop-punk band from England who made a brief impression on the British scene in the early '90s. Sadly for them, they were a few years ahead of their time as bands like Green Day and Blink 182 became worldwide stars using the same template as the Senseless Things.
Formed in 1987 in the town of Twickenham in West London, the band (Mark Keds on guitar and vocals, Ben Harding on guitar and vocals, Cass Browne on drums, Morgan Nicholls on bass) made a series of fast, melodic, and charmingly light-hearted singles for indie label Way Cool. The 1988 album, Postcard C.V., solidified their feel-good punk style and found them sounding like a perfect mix of the Buzzcocks and the Undertones with a little Archies thrown in. Around this time, the band struck up a friendship with Jamie Hewlett, creator of Tank Girl, and their record sleeves featured his work. A single, "Too Much Kissing," taken from the album soon became a solid indie hit and a larger label, Decoy, snapped up the band. Decoy was the home of the Mega City Four, another fine British pop-punk group. The Senseless Things released two well-received EPs in 1990, and after a storming appearance at the Reading Festival and a packed house tour of U.K. clubs, Epic Records signed them. The band was maturing musically and their first album for Epic found them utilizing acoustic guitars and exploring slower tempos. 1991's First of Too Many was a medium-sized hit, as were the singles taken from it, and the band seemed poised for more success. The next album, 1993's Empire of the Senseless, showed the band maturing lyrically as well. "Homophobic Asshole" was the first single from the record and although it was not a huge commercial hit, showed that the band may have a future beyond bubblegum punk. It was not to be, however. The band released one more album, 1995's Taking Care of Business, and split after one last tour. The band felt they had taken their sound as far as they could and decided to move in other directions. Keds formed a band called Jolt in late 1995. ~ Tim Sendra~ Rovi


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team competed at the Boston University Terrier Invitational on Friday in Boston, MA. Junior Krisztina Dearborn broke her second CCSU record of the season, this time in the 5,000 meter run. Dearborn ran a 17:29.59 in the race, ousting the previous record of 17:31.76 set in 2000 by Heather Gardiner.
This is the second record she has broken thus far in the 2013 season, the first came in the 3,000m event (10:08.33) at the Great Dane Classic on January 18.
The Blue Devils competed at the Terrier Invitational in a deep field of competitive athletes, including some NCAA leaders. The top-finisher for Central was sophomore Ronea Saunders who is following up her impressive freshman season with an equally impressive sophomore year. She placed fourth in the high jump, tying her career record of 1.75 meters.
Saunder's classmate Chantelle Deer also placed well for Central, taking 19th in the 500 meter dash with a time of 1:18.33.
Senior Rachel Dombroski turned in another effective sprint performance for the Blue Devils, earning 50th place out of 155 athletes in the 200m dash. She crossed the finish line in 26.10 and was followed closely by freshman Alyssa Gonzalez (26.43, 58th) and Deer (26.55, 64th).
Junior Elizabeth Eberhardt clinched a solid distance performance, crossing the line in 5:05.27 in the one mile run event for 28th out of 123.
A duo of freshman competed for the Blue Devils in the throwing events. Chelse Terry took 33rd of 53 in the shot put (10.80m) followed by Alessandra Caponigro in 44th (9.97m). The pair swapped leads in the weight throw with Caponigro topping Terry 10.83m to 10.25m for 46th and 52nd, respectively.
For complete meet results, click here.
Central will take to the road again on February 2 to compete at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI.


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New York Jets (plus 3) at St. Louis
Scott Feschuk: The New York Jets have done the impossible: they've made me feel sorry for Tim Tebow. Here we have a team that's 3-6 – a team that over the past two weeks has been blown out by Seattle and Miami… a team that stops the run about as well as Kevin James stops at eating just a couple of your fries… a team that insists on starting a quarterback who plays like a kid dressed up for Halloween as an NFL quarterback – and all week this team devoted its energy to debating whether its backup QB, who hardly ever plays, is or is not "terrible?" Here's the hard truth: the Jets have tuned out Rex Ryan. They need to make a change. You know who should coach this team? That Jill Kelley lady from the David Petraeus sex scandal.
She seems to be able to make grown men do anything. Within minutes of meeting her, FBI agents are ripping off their shirts and army generals are sending off lewd email messages about their four-star boners. Surely, if anyone could get Mark Sanchez to throw the ball in the general direction of someone – anyone – in green, it'd be her. Pick: St. Louis.
Scott Reid: Pro-tip for you buddy – it's not all that difficult to get army generals talking about their boners. In fact, military men can be included in a rather exclusive list of male-dominated professions that can be easily coaxed into talking online about their wood. This group includes, but is not necessarily limited to: doctors, lawyers, door-to-door salesmen, pastry chefs, magazine editors, cabinet ministers, air conditioner repairmen, director Kevin Smith, certified management accountants, video game designers (especially video game designers!), piano instructors, hot air balloonists, dairy farmers, astronauts, union leaders, clergymen, tutorial assistants, pipe fitters (no surprise there), air traffic controllers, official team mascots, building inspectors, glass blowers, financial regulators and whatever the hell it is that you call what we two do for a living. The real trick, in fact, is to get us men NOT to talk about our boners. How? Actually that was a ruse. There is no way to get us not to talk about our boners. But the wise among us do know better than to do it via email with chicks who suffer from "f-ing crazy big-eyes syndrome."
Of course, none of these human failings afflict Tim "Mr. Vanilla" Tebow. You know, maybe a little dirty-talk over the interweb would help Tim straighten out his skinny post (and yes, I'm speaking metaphorically). Pick: St. Louis.
Chicago (plus 5) at San Francisco
Reid: Look, I like Lawrence Gowan as much as the next guy. But when I want to hear some Queen, it's Freddie Mercury I'm jonesing for. I've had this night circled on my calendar for a couple months. And, it was Jay Cutler I wanted to see beat like a drum by Justin Smith. Now I've got to watch Jason Campbell versus Colin Kaepernick in the Sammy Hagar Bowl. Who will win? Well, we can say only three things with utter certainty. First, Urlacher is a beast. Second, Willis is a beast. And third, even if that dude that Elmo shagged admits he wasn't a minor when the sex happened, it's still kind of a creepy story.
I just hope to goodness Cookie Monster hasn't been up to anything with that Jill Kelley woman. Pick: Chicago.
Feschuk: I applaud the NFL for using its brand platform to promote breast cancer research (during October) and to honour those who serve in America's military (during November). But does that mean December is still up for grabs? If so, I'd like to request that the National Football League pay tribute to an issue that's of importance to all of us: Me. Navy blue is my favourite colour, so everyone will have to dress all in navy blue. Sure, this will make the games confusing but that's a small price to pay to venerate someone who is – and let's not overlook this fact – me. Also, we're going to need about 500 "slave Princess Leia" outfits for the cheerleaders. Pick: San Francisco.
Jacksonville (plus 16) at Houston
Feschuk: Sure, on one hand, the Jaguars are 1-8, they've given up a league-worst 119 more points than they've scored and not one player on the entire squad has a clue how Cadbury gets the soft, creamy caramel inside the chocolatey pockets of the Caramilk bar. But on the other hand: long, awkward silence. Pick: Houston.
Reid: First of all, everyone knows the Caramilk secret is that the creamy caramel was born there, perfect and immaculate – like the Baby Jesus. Second, I find Houston the most tedious good team in the NFL. Workmanlike offense. Reliably excellent defense. They're all so inoffensive and boring. You know who's not boring? MATT Houston, that's who!
Some may have dismissed Lee Horsley as a poor man's Tom Selleck but he'd add a little spice to a team that, let's face it, is a poor man's Oilers. Pick: Jacksonville.
Cincinnati (minus 3.5) at K.C.
Reid: Is there a more interesting team in the NFL than the Cincinnati Bengals? About 29 of them, actually. But man-oh-man, did they ever put the hurt on the Giants last week. Two picks. Two fumbles. Held Eli to a 56.0 QBR and ran up 31 points against the feared NYG defence. For those of you who are dedicated Canadian politics fans this is the rough equivalent of Jonathan Mousley out-fundraising Justin Trudeau (for those of you who just discovered you're not as dedicated in your fan-nishness of politics as you might have thought Jonathan Mousley is a government economist who has declared his intention to compete for the federal Liberal leadership. He's a nice guy. I went to university with him. And I don't think I'm shocking anyone by observing that he's ummm, not as good at politics as Justin). The Chiefs used to be the kind of team you never would bet against at home. Now you just don't want to bet on them at all. Pick: Cincinnati.
Feschuk: How can you think about football at a time like this? HOSTESS IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. This is the end for the company responsible for Twinkies, Ho-Hos and 83% of my overweightness. Sure, some people say there's no reason to worry because the right to manufacture Twinkies will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. But what if the highest bidder is Mitt Romney? If anyone can screw up an iconic snack cake, it's Romney. It's just a matter of time until he caves to the far right and changes the design of the Twinkie because its vaguely phallic shape is corrupting young minds and making Paul Ryan all nervous and sweaty. And just wait until Nate Silver has the Twinkie down three points in Ohio. Cue the $50-million attack-ad campaign against M&Ms: "Some have peanuts and some don't? Make up your mind, commies." The whole sorry exercise will end with a defiant Karl Rove appearing on Fox News to dispute the decision desk's call that the Twinkie is filled with empty calories. "MY SOURCES ON THE GROUND SAY THIS THING IS BASICALLY AN APPLE IN CAKE FORM." Pick: K.C.
Philadelphia (plus 3.5) at Washington
Feschuk: You know what's in even worse shape than the Philadelphia Eagles' season, John Travolta's career and me? The gossip industry. I happened to find myself at www.usmagazine.com for completely legitimate, non-loser-based reasons (I was looking for Nick Nolte's advice on how to accessorize my cashmere tank top) and these were the top stories of the day:
- Jennie Garth, Peter Facinelli Splitting Holidays With Daughters!
- Lea Michele: I Accidentally Served Cory Monteith Raw Eggs for Breakfast!
- Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie's Kids "Jump On Tables, Throw Food" at Missouri Pizza Parlor!
Seriously? Are we absolutely certain that these are the top stories involving famous celebrities? Are we sure that Cuba Gooding Jr. wasn't seen walking his wiener dog or that Rob Schneider didn't get a parking ticket? DIG FOR THE JUICY STUFF, US MAGAZINE! Honestly, what is wrong with celebrities today? Why can't they drive drunk, utter racist epithets and get their heads shaved clean in public like their forebears? Pick: Philadelphia.
Reid: I may not know much, but I know this: If I was one of Brangelina's blessed offspring, I'd throw food, curse at bellhops and order everyone I meet to shield their unattractive features from my perfectly formed eyes (even Uncle George).
What is the point of being rich, famous and unblemished if you don't lord it over others? In our increasingly class-less society, the art of snobbery is in distinct danger of becoming lost to memory and Merchant Ivory films. I beseech the Brangelina clan to rally to their proper station in life and remind the rest of us how inferior we are. And why not start with Eagles fans? Which reminds me: What's got two thumbs and is leaving town?
Pick: Washington.
San Diego (plus 7.5) at Denver
Reid: I am going to hate myself for this pick. Peyton has it in high gear. The Bronco's D is barely giving up 200 yards per game through the air. And Mile High is a tough place to win even when the team stinks. On top of that every bet I've ever made on Norv Turner has come back to haunt me like a jealous biographer (with unnaturally toned arms). But this spread is so huge and you just have to know that a hiccup is headed Denver's way soon. So I'm giving the game to the Chargers. As a special bonus addition, it's time for reader mail bag. A lot of folks write wanting to know more about Feschuk and myself – what do we like to do in our spare time, who is our favourite Osmond, what do we look like. That sort of thing. Well, ask and ye shall receive (even if no one really asked). Feschuk collects Royal Doulton figures, I am a free diving enthusiast. We both adore Jimmy. And, well…here's a picture taken of us together just last week at the art gallery.
Pick: San Diego.
Feschuk: I'm not sure I like how you're focusing on japes and frivolity when we are confronted with a serious crisis: if the Chargers lose big to the Broncos, it could mean the firing of Norv Turner – and the firing of Norv Turner could mean THE END OF NORV TURNER JOKES. This is a major concern in that, on an average week, 103% of the jokes in this column are Norv Turner jokes. Couple the firing of Norv with the all-but-certain ouster of Andy Reid – and the departure in recent years of Wade Phillips, Art Shell, Jim Zorn, Dick Jauron, Mike Tice, Josh McDaniels and everyone who's ever coached the Cleveland Browns – and we are running dangerously low on the sort of coach who exudes incompetence, stares vacantly into space thinking about beach volleyball in times of crisis and always appears to have his sideline headset tuned to the SiriusXM show tunes channel. NFL owners, I beseech you: One of you needs to find Mike Singletary, pull up his pants and put him in charge of your team, pronto. Pick: Denver.
New Orleans (minus 4.5) at Oakland
Feschuk: Veterans' Day in the U.S. is always an emotional time – so kudos to the NFL for paying tribute with its Salute to Service, which included on-field recognition, a financial contribution to several veterans' charities and a solemn reminder that over decades and through generations, countless selfless men and women have put themselves in harm's way and paid the ultimately price so that, back home, attractive young women can totally skank up the Army uniform for the benefit of beer-swilling horndogs from coast to coast. U! S! A! U! S! A!
Pick: Oakland.
Reid: I have to say, I saw what you just did there. And I don't much like it. To avoid talking about a boring matchup you exploited the respect and admiration we all hold for those who serve in uniform to provoke a cheap, titillating laugh substituting a photo of scantily clad cheerleaders. Can we please class this column up a notch or two? In an effort to effect some measure of correction, allow me to dedicate my pick for this game to a soldier who has sincerely put themselves in harm's way in defense of our freedoms. On behalf of us all, allow me to say thank you Private Nikki:
Pick: New Orleans
Green Bay (minus 3.5) at Detroit
Reid: I know that Calvin Johnson currently leads all receivers with 974 yards. I know that he's already caught 60 passes. And I know that pimply losers on the Internet cowed Michael Bay into hiring Mark Wahlberg to star in Transformers 4 – which not only gives Megatron a new lease on life but creates hopes for a grisly onscreen death for Shia Lebeouf.
Until this past Sunday though, Megatron hadn't scored a touchdown since the weather was warm. For the entire season he's snagged only two majors and his team is back prowling the NFC North's cellar. The Lion's outlook couldn't be more gloomy if they were named Jelena. Pick: Green Bay.
Feschuk: I have to admit: I didn't get that reference and had to look it up. Is that the term that people actually use to refer to Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez? Jelena? It sounds like a board game or some newfangled flavour of sherbet. As for the fourth Transformers, I wonder if the future of earth as we know it and all of humankind will be in peril? And if so, I wonder of those two things will ultimately be saved in a heroic manner that involves gun play, close calls and wisecracks. I guess only time will tell. Pick: Green Bay.
Other games and whatnot:
Arizona (plus 10) at Atlanta
Tampa Bay (minus 1.5) at Carolina
Cleveland (plus 7.5) at Dallas
Indianapolis (plus 9.5) at New England
Baltimore (plus 3.5) at Pittsburgh
Twitter: @scottfeschuk @_scottreid


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Leading Women connects you to extraordinary women of our time. Each month, we meet two women at the top of their field, exploring their careers, lives and ideas.
(CNN) -- Helene Gayle must be one of the few chief executives who dreams of a world where her job doesn't exist.
In fact, the president of one of the biggest poverty charities on the planet -- CARE USA -- would probably prefer it if there was no need for her organization at all.
Yet on any given day there will be a humanitarian disaster unfolding across the globe -- from violence in Somalia, to flooding in Pakistan, and chemical warfare in Syria. And all of them need CARE.
"We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business," said the 58-year-old.
"If CARE doesn't need to exist as it is 20 years from now, so be it. But I think it's safe to say that there will still be a need for relief in this world -- there will still be an unstable country or a fragile environment."
The business of charity
Since it first began over 60 years ago with American charities sending food packages to World War Two survivors, CARE International -- of which CARE USA is a member -- has become one of the largest aid organizations in the world, with 10,000 staff working in some 80 countries.
Last year the charity helped more than 83 million people across the globe -- and was ranked the seventh best NGO on the planet in 2013.
It's an enormous operation, and one which Gayle -- one of Forbes magazines' "100 most powerful women" -- has led since 2006.
"The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease -- it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing," she said.
"And these are all the things we focus on at CARE."
Women of the world
When former pediatrician Gayle joined CARE seven years ago, she became not just the first woman to lead the organization, but the first person of color.
While being an African-American female in a business environment usually dominated by white men hasn't hindered her career, it's still something she's acutely aware of.
"When I walk into a room that is all white and all male, I'm sitting on the outside of that club. That's sometimes an intimidating experience," she said.
"But I think that everywhere that I've gotten is because I've worked hard. I have the experience, I have the credentials -- I continue not to take any of that for granted."
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It is perhaps unsurprising that Gayle has now made women's rights a big focus at CARE.
"We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation," said Gayle.
"That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits."
Sixties spirit
Growing up in Buffalo, New York, Gayle's own social worker mother was a huge influence in her career.
"I grew up at a time in the sixties where there was a lot of social change going on -- the civil rights movement, women's movement, anti apartheid," she said.
"My mother really gave that sense to us of giving back to the community. She'd say 'you've got a good brain, and a big mouth, use it.'"
Gayle didn't disappoint, working for over three decades at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, focusing on HIV/AIDS research.
Read: The female force that is Melinda Gates
"Just a few years ago less that 1% of people who needed treatment [for HIV] had access to it and now it's up to 55% and growing," she said.
"We are now on the track to absolutely eliminate pediatric HIV infection globally."
Where there is a will
Walk around Gayle's office today it's lined with honorary university degrees and awards from Desmond Tutu and Barack Obama.
She points to a photograph of herself with Nelson Mandela during a trip with the former U.S. secretary of health to South Africa -- an experience she describes as "electric."
But among the high-brow accolades, Gayle remains focused on simple achievements such as education, access to clean drinking water, and shelter.
"We believe that it's possible to eliminate extreme poverty over the next couple of decades. We know what needs to be done and we have the tools," she said, adding: "But do we have the will as a world community to do it?"


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The food and wine ritual
This is done at the start of the session. It is done to open the channels of communication, but can also be used to discuss sessions after completion. I find it at its most useful at the start of Couples Therapy, as often, clients can be a little nervous. Those involved sit facing each other and share wine, or champagne, and cakes, fruits or other sweet delicacies. Then, when all parties are relaxed. Simply that. It's a wonderful opportunity for those involved to get to know each other better, and to discuss past experiences, likes and dislikes and goals for the session. It can be done with tea or juice.
Cleansing ritual
This is either a shower or scented bath which is taken before the massage and is essential to cleanse the skin, and also aids in relaxation. Deep breathing can be done to cleanse the inside so the outside must be cleansed too. The Bathing Ritual can also be a time to communicate with me while you relax, leading to a higher state of relaxation as you go into the massage, leading to a more open state of mind and thus a more effective massage.
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When you remove one of the senses, for example, sight, the other four senses are exaggerated. This also put the body into a heightened state of awareness. I'll manipulate and work the other senses to yours and my advantage, and push them to the edge of overload. A truly erotic journey.
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Once you get to know me, we can discuss your fantasies and take your erotic journey further, bearing in mind that it still links to the philosophy of Tantra and the Tantric Massage.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Fall Crafts: Coffee Filter Apple Art for Kids
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These are great, I just love them! Do you have a favorite apple template that you can share?ReplyDeleteReplies
Jenn, I will scan mine & can email it to you. I drew it myself so it's not perfect but it was just the right size for the coffee filters and isn't too shabby :)Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 11:49 PM
If possible could you email me this document as well? I would love to do these with my kinder kiddos next week! Thanks!Delete
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- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Could I get it as well? Thank you!Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2012 at 8:07 AM
Could I have it as well. I would love to do this with my class. Thank you for your consideration.Delete
- Sherry DouglasSeptember 22, 2012 at 2:11 PM
I teach second grade and my kids will love this activity! Great way to celebrate Johnny Appleseed and fall. Thanks!Delete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2012 at 5:21 PM
I loved your apples! I tweaked your idea and turned them into stained glass windows with my special needs class. After the coffee filters mix colors and are dry, rub a little bit of vegetable oil on them and let them dry again. Once they're dry for the second time, glue them between TWO apple cut outs. They can hang in your windows as stained glass.Thanks for the inspiration!Delete
I love these! I can't wait to make them with my girls!ReplyDelete
I love these! I wanted to do the one with contact paper, but contact paper is such a pain! I'm going to make these on Friday with my preschool class.ReplyDeleteReplies
Meghan, this was super quick to do for my 3 yr olds. We did it today and it went great. Just have to watch they don't spray too much water. That was the tricky part, hehe.Delete
Awesome. They turn out so beautifully!ReplyDelete
Love this!! Would you consider posting your apple template? I would love to do this with my preschool classes!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Mindy! I will try to get it up on here tomorrow for those of you that have asked about it.Delete
Thanks so much! :)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 6:14 PM
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- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 12:14 AM
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This would be a great way to make leaves also. So pretty. Pinning now!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2012 at 8:15 AM
Template please...Thanks! firstname.lastname@example.com
Love this! We will be making these in the classroom this week!! Thank you very much for sharing.. Also love the idea in the above comments on using the same idea on leaves!! Awesome. I didn't have any trouble getting your template!ReplyDelete
Thank you again!!!
I loved this post! Thanks so much for sharing all those great ideas! I will definitely try the coffee filter apples!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM
We made these today and they look beautiful!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing all your wonderful ideas!
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Big thank you for this wonderful art project and template. We can do this together!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 6:40 PM
I would love a template, if you don't mind. email@example.com
I did this with a 4-year-old boy that I nanny for. Turned out so cute! Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
could you email me the template too please the above link isnt working for me. - email@example.com
- AnonymousJune 24, 2013 at 12:06 AM
any chance I could get a copy of the apple template...having trouble downloading it...firstname.lastname@example.com thxReplyDeleteReplies
just emailed the template to youDelete
- AnonymousJuly 1, 2013 at 9:45 AM
we made butterflies using the same technique - they're beautifulDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM
apple template?ReplyDelete
can someone email me a copy for my preschool please?
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I have been searching for something quick and easy to use as an extention of a literacy activity! Super cute and fun to make.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2013 at 7:58 PM
Thanks so much for sharing! I can't wait to use this with my preschoolers!ReplyDelete
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I would also like the template too! email@example.com Thank you in advance!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Hi. i am having trouble printing the Template and would really like to use it with my sunday school class next week. could you email it to me please. firstname.lastname@example.com
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- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2013 at 5:56 PM
I just did this activity on Johnny Appleseed day with my Daughter. I homeschool, and thought this was a fun hands on activity. We made 5 huge apples. When we were done, my daughter wanted to do more and more!!! Thank you for this great idea!!!ReplyDelete
You could also use the outline portion of a diecut- the piece that is usually recycled.ReplyDelete
could I have the template of the apple please.
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Can I please have the template of the apple as soon as possible?? We already started with the coffee filter.
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